The Mira Moon Hotel takes its name from the legend of the Chinese Moon Goddess of Immortality. The story goes that there were once 10 suns orbiting the Earth making our planet a hellish place to live. The hero, Hou Yi shot down nine of them making the Earth into the cool, lush place we know today. He was rewarded with the elixir of immortality. Hou Yi loved his wife so much that he gave the elixir to her. After she drank it she flew to the moon only to discover that she could not return. To this day she remains an immortal – living on the moon watching over her husband and all mankind.
The characters in this story inspired the hotel’s playful design which uses traditional Chinese prints, carpets, and graphics to create a unique experience. The fusion restaurant combines terrace and indoor dining while the 24-hour gym provides a workout at any time.
Singapore's one-north district has long been the city-state's answer to Silicon Valley, a sprawling tech hub where glass towers house startups and multinational R&D labs. Now it has a place to match: lyf one-north Singapore, a 324-unit co-living development that's less hotel, more urban village with room keys. Forget the …
Glasgow's latest boutique hotel doesn't just embrace excess - it practically wallows in it. House of Gods, which opened in April 2024 after a three-year renovation, has transformed a corner building in Merchant City into something that feels less like heaven and more like a very stylish purgatory. This is …
Forget everything you think you know about Santorini hotels. Neema Maison Finikia isn't trying to be another whitewashed cave dwelling with predictable blue accents and donkey photos. Instead, this 16-room adults-only retreat feels like stumbling into a high-fashion backstage area that somehow materialized on a Greek cliff. The brainchild of …
Hidden behind ivy-covered walls in Austin's Travis Heights neighborhood, Hotel Saint Cecilia feels more like stumbling upon a rock star's private estate than checking into a hotel. This isn't some corporate luxury property - it's a carefully curated sanctuary where turntables come standard and the minibar stocks incense alongside the …
When most people picture Santorini hotels, they imagine pristine white buildings cascading down cliffsides like sugar cubes. Kivotos Santorini throws that postcard image out the window with a dramatic flourish. Painted entirely in volcanic black and charcoal gray, this boutique retreat in Imerovigli looks like Batman's vacation home - and …
Step off a Shinkansen bullet train in Kyoto and you can find yourself, two minutes later, in a lobby that feels like a meditation retreat designed by a modernist architect. The Thousand Kyoto, which opened in 2019, sits practically next door to the city's main railway station (Kyoto Station), yet …
Walking into HOTEL TAVINOS Kyoto feels like stepping through the pages of a manga. The walls explode with illustrations of sumo wrestlers, traditional bathhouses, and moon-viewing scenes - all rendered in the bold, playful style that has made Japanese comics a global phenomenon. This isn't your typical business hotel. Since …
Picture this: you're sipping a cocktail surrounded by whitewashed walls and blue-domed architecture, but instead of the Aegean Sea stretching before you, it's the Indonesian waters where Komodo dragons patrol their ancient territory. The Loccal Collection Hotel in Labuan Bajo has committed fully to this geographical identity crisis, and somehow, …
What started as a house-hunting expedition in 2002 has morphed into one of Morocco's most photographed properties. Howell James and Vanessa Branson thought they were buying a holiday home in Marrakech's ancient medina. Instead, they accidentally acquired a string of crumbling buildings that would become El Fenn – a maximalist …
On the precipice of nowhere, where ancient stone meets endless blue, sits a hotel born from one man's obsession with a ruined windmill and a love affair with isolation. Folegandros – try saying it without stumbling over the syllables – remains mercifully untouched by the cruise ship hordes that descend …
